Fans who attended Jessica Simpson's Ontario concert date -- for the price of $70 a ticket -- did not walk away empty handed. Sure, The Niagara Falls Reviewtore into the set. But get a load of these new fun facts about Ms. Simpson:
She considers her voice "a gift from God":Before the Dolly Parton-penned “Do You Know,” Simpson talked about the night she screwed up the lyrics to “9 to 5” with Dolly in the audience. She was so bummed, “I told my daddy I’m never going to sing again … I’m going to ignore this gift God gave me.”
Tony Romo might soon be fathering an alien:Before the new song “Man Enough,” Simpson said her man must be ready for anything -- including the possibility she’s pregnant with an alien.
God speaks directly to her: Before “Remember That,” a song about abuse, she said God wanted her to record it “so I could stand up here and be witness to you guys.”
Her gas is pleasant: “I do pass gas a lot,” she said. “I guarantee it smells like roses.”
We here at Dish Rag encourage Jessica to print out this letter and keep it somewhere safe. Let it be an inspiration to you.
“It's like going to a war together,” Doherty said of her relationship with Garth. “You've already been in the trenches together. You learned so much from that first war. That second war, you know what you need to do to make the set the most peaceful environment you can possibly have.”
Talk about burying the hatchet. Doherty even voted for Garth on “Dancing With the Stars!”
When asked about the actors playing the newest batch of West Beverly High students, Garth told Entertainment Weekly, “They are savvy. They know what they signed up for. They have all this knowledge about the business.” Doherty agreed, saying, “They're far more prepared than we ever could have been. And they're amazing.”
Instead of drifting into the arms of a new man, newly singleJennifer Aniston might be seeking the girl power magic of one Tina Fey. E! Onlinereports that the actress could return to NBC this fall in an episode of workplace comedy "30 Rock."
"She is shooting now," a source tells E! "We are not giving any specifics on her character."
This news gives us faith that Jen's finally developing good taste. "30 Rock" is the smartest comedy on TV, better than her last movie, "The Break-Up," and certainly better than John Mayer, who recently spouted this bit of gobbledygook to gathered press members in defense of Aniston:
"If you guys are going to run stuff and run every lie under the sun, have somebody stand up for somebody. Have me as a man who ended a relationship stand here and write some truth. Have me stand up for somebody and write that Jennifer Aniston is the smartest, most sophisticated person I think I've ever met.... I don't do 'the taper.' I guarantee you [that] 20 percent of the people on this street right now who are in a relationship wish they could get out but they don't know how. And I'm going to be honest on the way into my relationships and I'm going to be honest on the way out of my relationships."
Thanks, John, but no thanks.
Aniston's appearance would follow the very funny role of her "Friends" alumni David Schwimmer, who played NBC's arrogant environmental mascot Greenzo last season.
It might even finally win her some Emmy love: This year, "30 Rock" is up for seven guest-acting nominations, including ones for Rip Torn, Will Arnett, Steve Buscemi, Tim Conway, Carrie Fisher, Edie Falco and Elaine Stritch.
In a new interview with Papa Lohan, Michael lashes out at daughter Lindsay's latest love Samantha Ronson, who he says is only interested in making money off of Lindsay.
Here's the real newsflash: "She's gone from making $7 million to less than a million a movie," he mentions.
Wait, she still gets paid?
To act?
In film?
Someone's paying her to star in "Labor Pains"? I thought it was the other way around. A sort of penance for her former party ways. (I mean, her co-star is "American Idol" alum Kevin Covais, he of Chicken Little look-a-like fame.)
If you're not surprised by this new intel, you should be.
Refer to this handy chart of her box office performance over the years. Notice the six movies she made after Disney's 2005 family film "Herbie: Fully Loaded" did not make more than $20 million. (OK, "A Prairie Home Companion" did. Barely.)
In her pre-partying days, "Freaky Friday" made over $110 million. "Mean Girls" did $86 million.
On Thursday, "Access Hollywood"broke the news that David Duchovny was entering rehab for sex addiction.
"I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction," the actor said in a statement. "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."
Rumors about this potential problem have come up for Duchovny before. But he denied them to Playgirl magazine In 1997:
"I'm not a sex addict. I have never been to those meetings. It's hurtful to my family and if I was involved with a woman in a monogamous relationship, it would be hurtful to her. There was another story claiming I was a neat freak. If I had to choose one of the two, I think I'd rather be a sex addict. It's not funny and I'll be glad when it goes away."
Is this really an issue for him? Or more of a research project?
Yes, sex addiction is a real issue. But maybe, just maybe, could Duchovny simply be doing homework? Will he emerge victorious, a fooled-ya grin on his face, after he's finished his "character research"? Duchovny, after all, stars in the Showtime series "Californication," as Hank Moody, a writer and spun-out-of-control sex addict.
And Duchovny was left in the dust this year in the Emmys race, while a Showtime colleague, "Dexter" star Michael C. Hall, was nominated for lead actor.
Apparently "American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard doesn't feel like he needs to pay his taxes. And the IRS is not happy.
He owes more than $193,000 in state and federal taxes. Much of it was due for 2003 -- the year he won "Idol" and signed a $1-million contract. He was also awarded $2 million a couple of years ago after he sued his former business manager for misappropriated funds.
Now's a bad time for Studdard. His label J Records dropped him in December after two of his three albums failed to
ignite sales.
Where'd he go and spend all of it? How's he supporting new wife Surata?
At the time of the sentence, Hilary's mother and father, in the middle of years-long divorce proceedings, were in court, arguing over who would pay for Hilary's upcoming 21st birthday party.
Figure it out, guys.
Nothing puts a damper on a kid's birthday party quite like watching her father get cuffed and committed.
Things would have gotten ugly. US Weekly has the scoop on the storied fistfight that allegedly went down many moons ago between frenemies Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth during the glory days of "Beverly Hills, 90210."
Spelling, in her autobiography, "sTORI Telling," said the personalities of the two clashed in a big way. She writes:
"Shannen had everything, but she could be arrogant and carefree. Jennie was outspoken when she thought Shannen was out of line. Sometimes they got along, but there were explosions. Once they got into a fistfight."
"A night with [Shannen] meant going to the hottest club and drinking until the early hours. I knew she was a 'bad influence,' but I liked her anyway."
But now Doherty is crying foul. She tells US Weekly in this week's cover story that things never came to blows. "We never did," she said. "I think I would remember Jennie's fist connecting with a part of my body or a part of my face."
(Well, unless the fight happened after one of those nights on the town.)
"It just goes to show you how people will lie," Doherty said of Spelling.
I'm so happy that you are happy. I know that you're happy, not because we are pals, but because you went to People magazine and told them all about it.
Here’s the thing though, Jess: If this whole Tony Romo romance doesn't work out, the tabloids will post pictures of you in frumpy outfits and quote "an onlooker" about how depressed you look.
Learn from your past. Keep things private once in a while. If you think Romo is the "perfect guy," tell Ashlee and Papa Joe — not People.
Remember Jess: Public courtship equals public breakup.
"During a secondary screening process she was found in possession of what appeared to be a small amount of heroin and cocaine," said Los Angeles Airport Police Sgt. Jim Holcomb. "She was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, a felony, and transported to the airport station."
The 48-year old actress has a documented history of substance abuse.
The poofy hair, the leg warmers. Could Heidi actually understand the meaning of "lampooning"? Was this an attempt at doing something "tongue-in-cheek"?
Does. Not. Compute. (Not that it matters, really. The video is bizarre from any angle. And "Overdosin'" is the kind of fluff that doesn't get stuck in the head.) But wasn't it just yesterday that she and boyfriend Spencer madea very genuine effort to turn Heidi into the next Mariah Carey with a would-be sexy video for "Higher"?
The production value of "Overdosin'" is actually much better than that of "Higher," but does it win you over? Are you laughing with "The Hills" star or at her?
Or has Team Speidi worn out its welcome?
A better question: Could MTV be secretly funding this train wreck? We have yet to hear talk of a record deal for Heidi, after all...
Remember Tara Conner? The 2006 Miss USA winner who almost lost her crown amid reports of alcoholism, drug abuse and promiscuity? Well, she's back in a new MTV reality show, and she's out to teach young women how to be ladies.
Seriously.
The show is tentatively titled "LaDette to Lady."
The recently rehabbed Conner might seem like an odd choice to host a show that sounds like reality TV cotillion, but with a little help from her old pal Donald Trump, Conner scored the gig.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night was all about Democratic party unity.
But for her historic speech to unite the party and guarantee support for Sen. Barack Obama, she chose an orange pantsuit over red, blue or lilac versions, all of which were seen on NBC news when they were held up to be color-tested hours before she before she stepped onstage.
Picking the orange outfit could have meant that it simply looked better against the blue background. She's worn orange several times this year, so perhaps it was more flattering to HIllary's hair and skin tones.
But there might be another reason. Does picking orange over blue or lilac, which would have coordinated with Michelle Obama's teal blue dress worn Tuesday night, have a deeper meaning?
On the surface, it may sound silly. But small things, like the color of a pantsuit, can telegraph big political messages.
So though her speech was all about party unity, HIllary remains very formidable and individual. And she still wants to be president one day, which might be easier if the Republicans are defeated by Barack Obama this year.
What do you think? Hillary did a good job of verbally uniting the party over the issues of jobs, budget, the Iraq war, alternative fuel and healthcare.
"We're still in discussions," a rep tells The Dish Rag. "The show actually did really well for us. It was our third-highest series premiere. There's no decision yet."
"Really well." Huh. Here's the translation: The final episode of "Denise Richards: It's Complicated" aired July 27, and drew 976,000 viewers, according to Nielsen. The premiere gathered 1.5 million. That's a 35% drop over its nine-episode run.
But that's not terrible by E! standards: The channel's hit series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" performed only slightly better with 1.06 million tuning in to its season finale in May.
So Richards might live to embarrass her kids -- and that poor teenage nephew of hers -- another day. Stay tuned!
(In other news, E! also tells us that no decision has been made about bringing back "Living Lohan" either. But the forecast is grim: It's not produced by E! darling Ryan Seacrest and the ratings are lower than even "Complicated.")
Oh NO! According to the New York Post,Denise Richards' reality TV show, “It’s Complicated,” has been dropped like the hot potato it totally wasn’t.
Maybe Denise has been so busy tussling with ex-husband Charlie Sheen over their children's visitation, medical care, and to have the two young girls appear on the E! show, that maybe she just wasn’t giving it her best shot.
Although we will always fondly remember the highlights of her show, one of which was about her stud pig and the other was her giving a foul-mouthed what-for to an entertainment reporter for the unflattering way she was portrayed in the tabloid press.
Take that, you #$%^%%&&**?%&!
"The numbers started out pretty good - just over 1.5 million tuned in for the premiere episode," a source told "The Insider" yesterday. "But the audience has dropped off. " More like nodded off….
As for Charlie, his brand-new wife is having a baby.
Frankly, watching one episode of Denise's show was enough to make one totally sympathize with Charlie. How did he ever marry that loud-mouth?
Are you surprised Denise's show got canceled? Did you actually watch it?
Update: According to an E! Network rep, "the show has performed well
and discussions are still underway about a second season. No decision
has been made yet."
Lancome's dark gloss is due out in November, which is also when "Twilight" opens. Their gloss is called Piha Black, meant to be worn over their cherry red Piha Red. The set is already on preorder at lancome.com or exclusively at Bloomies.
Have "Twilight" legions of fans already snatched up this stuff?
Edward Cullen would totally approve. So would Bella Swan.
What's next? How about "Twilight"-inspired foundation to give you that deathly pale undead skin? Perhaps eye cream for those seductive dark circles? Maybe contact lenses that can turn your eyes from gold to hungry-and-hunting black?
Some would say it's just a coincidence that so many deep forest hues are in vogue for fall fashion, including moss green, dark brown, aged rust and ominous black. No, there are darker forces at work here.
For all you Robert Pattinson fans, click on Read Full Story below to see the "Twilight" actor, who also played Cedric Diggory in a couple of the "Harry Potter" movies, at the "Harry Potter" photo call a few years ago. This was way before Rob even dreamed of becoming the hot, sexy, undead Edward Cullen.
In her speech last night at the Democratic convention, most critics agree thatMichelle Obama came off as warm, human, poised, non-threatening, talking mostly about her husbandBarack Obama's character, their close-knit family and basic moral beliefs.
But how did that blue dress fly?
First off, the dress, thankfully not a skirt suit, was sleek and minimal. The hem length was appropriate, but not dumpy. It had a flattering V-neck with three quarter-length sleeves that made Michelle’s broad shoulders and strong arms look less threatening. And the teal blue color coordinated nicely with the blue/violet hues of her daughters’ outfits.
I even liked the turquoise and silver star pin (reportedly from her jewelry box) that reminded me of Barack's Rising Sun campaign logo.
Laura Schwartz, former advisor to Sen. John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and who also worked in the Clinton White House, gave the dress two thumbs up for style and for message, telling CBS News, "I thought she was very simple, very understated, which might be a good idea because, in this era of attack ads, the McCain people are saying: 'Hey, the Obamas are elitist. They're caught up in celebrity.' If she came out in a real fancy dress, that would just be more fodder for them."
Michelle's blue dress was designed by Maria Pinto, a Chicago-native designer (formerly assistant to Geoffrey Beene) made good. Wisely banking on all the presidential publicity, she's opened a store in Chicago's West Loop this month. Maria has worked with the potential first lady for some time. She also designed that hot purple sleeveless sheath (accessorized with an Azzedine Alaia belt) that Michelle wore when Barack announced his candidacy.
Pinto made a point of telling the New York Times that none of Michelle’s fashion decisions are deviously planned. "Michelle is not scheming like her wardrobe should make certain points."
But Maria has some thoughts (what designer doesn’t?) about how she’d like to see Michelle look for an inaugural. “I definitely see a light color and something kind of fitted in the torso and fuller in the skirt.”
As you might expect, some Hollywood celebrities are feeling hopeful about Barack Obama and his chances at the upcoming Democratic National Convention and the November presidential election.
And at the GO/LA screening event of the classic "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" in Beverly Hills, "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin, left, said he's looking forward to a charismatic president for a change.
"We've been missing a president that gives us goosebumps. I don't want a president I can have a beer with, I want one that can think. We can never say again that something is impossible. He's going to rock the place, the convention and the White House."
At the Black/White Obama Fundraiser in Beverly Hills, which raised $200,000 for Obama's campaign,"My Life on the D-List" comic Kathy Griffin got serious. Sort of.
"It's time for a big giant change. I'm not going to the convention, because I'm on the road. But I'll be watching it with bated breath. I'm thinking they can spice it up a little. Maybe put an 8-year-old Chinese gymnast in there and a car chase. But I hope people watch."
She thinks Obama ought to be "out there" even more. "I mean don't be catering to the big oil companies or the big corporations. Don't be promising that he won't raise taxes, because he has to raise taxes. However, you don't have to lower taxes for the corporate giants. I think he should start to say the stuff he was saying more at the beginning and the stuff we sorely need to hear."
At the same event, funny lady Fran Drescher said, "I love Obama. I know him, I love him and if he wasn't married I'd do him in a New York minute."
Oh-kay ...
Ice Cube was optimistic about Obama's ability to inspire black youth.
It's a pretty amazing resemblance. Now this is a dude who either has a very long and possibly very lucrative — or just a very short and possibly very lucrative — career as an Obama impersonator.
It all depends on what happens in November.
But if Obama wins, I think his camp should hire this guy to be his decoy and/or a stunt president.
What do you think? Could he pass for Obama?
Check out those ears!
Photo: The real Obama on one of his campaign stops this year. WireImage
Count on Madonna to court controversy to promote her new "Sticky and Sweet" concert tour.
Yawn. Talk about predictable.
She used images that upset the Catholic Church in a tour a few years ago. On her last tour, she upset Jews with her use of Kabbalah images. Now she's taking aim at John McCain.
Madonna lumped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee into a video montage that includes Adolf Hitler and Robert Mugabe. More than 40,000 fans got to see it Saturday night at Cardiff's Millennium in Wales.
McCain's image is in a video (for the aptly named song "Get Stupid") that shows him, Hitler and Mugabe juxtaposed with shots of global warming and environmental and social destruction. When the song ends, more peaceful images of John Lennon, Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and Barack Obama are shown.
"It's a disappointing and vulgar attack on John McCain, who has devoted his life to the cause of freedom and the fight against tyranny," McCain spokesperson Taylor Griffin says today.
"But, it's not surprising that Barack Obama and his fellow celebrities stick together."
Yeah, those darn celebrities!
Anyway, Madonna manipulated us again. I can't believe it. Here we are writing about her stupid tour. Darn, she's good.
What do you think? Is Madonna right? Wrong? Will she ever shut up?
Photos: Madonna onstage in Cardiff, Wales this weekend. WireImag
Relax. By shot, I mean photographed. Seems Brad turned his lens on Angelina Jolie and their expanded family.
According to Fashion Week Daily, he picked up a camera and photographed the family at the Chateau Miraval in the south of France last week for the November cover of W magazine.
This will be their second W spread as a couple. Surely you recall their controversial "Domestic Bliss" photo spread (shot by photog Steven Klein) featuring Brad and Angelina pretending to be a married couple for the July 2005 issue.
Of course, that was back when they were just friends, and the photo shoot was supposed to be publicizing their movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”
Instead, it telegraphed the very open splintering of Brad's marriage to Jennifer Aniston and his blossoming and very close relationship with Jolie.
It's worth noting that Angie gave Brad a Littman 45 Single camera for a recent birthday gift.
Wonder if this is the test drive?
I'm sure Maddox, Pax, Sahara, Shiloh and the adorable new Jolie-Pitts, Vivienne and Knox, will be in all the photos.
But let's hope Brad had a timer so he could slide into a few shots too.
Photo: Zahara, Momma Angie and Maddox at play. WireImage
Don't be surprised if you see photos of Hilary Swank, Ali Larter, Kate Walsh, Pete Wentz, Aaron Eckhart, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Panettiere and, heck, maybe even Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in Dubai in a year or so.
Last night, these celebs showed up in their best borrowed jewels, gowns and designer suits to walk a red carpet, talk about Dubai and pose for photos with the Donald.
"It was really weird," said one seasoned reporter. "Stars didn't do the line like they usually do. They were being taken to various press outlets. And no one wanted to talk about anything else else, even their upcoming projects. Just Dubai. It was like they were doing paid infomercials for Trump's hotel."
About that pay ... Asked if he'd ever been to Dubai, a powerful publicist for an Oscar-level star who attended the party told me, "Not yet! But with this party's free trip, I'm going real soon!"
So it wasn't just the stars who were getting freebies (free first-class air travel, luxury hotel/residence digs, free cars), it was also their reps who brokered the appearance deals. And this is on top of major cash outlays as well, according to participants.
This kind of party payola is pretty par for the course, but Trump, as usual, has taken it to a new level.
Which he also did when he introduced Christina Aguilera, set to perform later in the evening: “We just love Christina, and I’ve been with her many times. But not in a sexual way, though I wish, I wish.”
To see more stars in their Trumped-up style, keep reading ...
Photos: Donald Trump and Orlando Bloom. Christina Aguilera and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. WireImage
Andy Dick may not be as odious a person as previously reported.
He just really, really looks like one in his recent mug shot, at left.
Now it has come to light that he may not have sexually assaulted that 17-year-old girl last month when he allegedly pulled down her top outside a chicken joint in July.
Great, much more redeeming.
According to the D.A.'s rep, "We found that his actions were more in line with an assault than with a sexual battery. It didn't appear to be an overt sexual act."
Dick does face charges for regular battery, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, public intoxication and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
This stems from his arrest outside the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Murrieta, Calif.
Hilary Swank bailed from filming "Amelia," the story of famed aviatrix-gone-missing Amelia Earhart, long enough to do a fly-by at Donald Trump's Saturday night bash for his new Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai at a private estate in Beverly Hills.
The film, due out next fall, is being directed by Mira Nair, and also stars Ewan McGregor, Virginia Madsen, Mia Wasikowska and Richard Gere as Amelia's husband.
Wearing a black strapless Marchesa gown, Hilary's definitely got the paler, shorter gamine locks down, much more like her early "Boys Don't Cry" style.
Will HIlary Swank do justice to the memory of one of the most courageous women in world flight history, who vanished in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to fly around the world?
I can't think of a more suitable actress than the two-time Oscar winner to play the tiny, tough as nails female pilot. I just hope it turns out better than her last period flicks, "Iron Jawed Angels" and "The Black Dahlia."
What do you think of Hilary's new look?
Photos: Hilary at the Donald's bash. Credit: WireImage
Every day, paparazzi are happily snapping photos of Katie Holmes walking to work in Manhattan, looking adorable, wearing Tom Cruise's baggy jeans, a sassy new shorter do, and studious, "take me serious please" horn-rimmed glasses. (See photo below!)
But it seems the paps are the only people excited about having Katie in New York.
According to the New York Post, advance ticket sales for Holmes' first Broadway play, a revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," are not as strong as had been hoped — to put it mildly.
One source asked the Post: "Where are all the Scientologists? Don't they want to see her?"
Ticket sales agents and brokers, who had assumed, apparently incorrectly, that Holmes would be this season's Julia Roberts, are totally bummed and shocked. Oh, please, had they not seen "Mad Money"? Because anyone who did wouldn't pay a plugged nickel to see Katie onstage.
The advance for "All My Sons," which opens in September, is said to be less than $1 million.
But here's what's gotta hurt: Tom Cruise's second wife, Nicole Kidman, made her Broadway debut in 1998 in the play "The Blue Room." Balcony seats were reportedly scalped for as much as $700 a pop, and the resulting publicity, including a Newsweek cover, helped her movie career.
But then, Nic was buck naked for a few seconds on stage. That probably helped.
Backstage at "All My Sons," buzz is that the cast is less than thrilled about being forced to sign "confidentiality agreements" regarding Katie Holmes.
Great. That's gotta be winning poor Katie lots of close friends in the production.
Holmes isn't the only celebrity sporting geeky horn-rimmed glasses to look smarter and more serious. Click here to see the Red Carpet Rewind Gallery of Hollywood's new intelligentsia.
After Republican presumptive presidential candidate John McCain couldn't tell a "Politico" reporter exactly how many houses he owns ("I've have my staff get back to you?"), well, the you-know-what hit the proverbial fan. Reports vary on how many abodes McCain owns, lives in, owns but lets his daughter live in, rents, etc., as the above video asserts.
But one thing is certain: Owning more than one house does make the notion that Democratic presumptive presidential candidate Barack Obama is an "elitist" seem a tad off-base. Which is probably why McCain's house call instantly became fodder for Barack's new TV campaign ad.
Check out one of John and Cindy McCain's homes in Hidden Valley, Ariz., in House and Garden.
What do you think? How many houses is too many for one couple? And what about the ecological impact of maintaining that many homes?
Isn't that a pretty darn big carbon footprint for McCain?
Barack Obama is 6-foot-2. John McCain is 5-foot-7.
There hasn't been a U.S. president nearly as short as McCain since 1897, when William McKinley, who stood 5-foot-8, was elected president.
That in mind, pint-sized Republican presidential presumptive candidate John McCain needs to start dressing tall, like a real man.
Menswear designer Jimmy Au, who specializes in dressing short celebrities, like Danny DeVito ,and has designed short collections for Ralph Lauren, Sean John and DKNY, has excellent advice (via Variety's Stylephile) for McCain.
Here, we've added a few of our own tips.
Bigger shoulders only make a diminutive guy look stocky and shorter.
Smaller, softer shoulders and a trim sleeve makes short guys look taller.
Wearing a sportscoat and dress pants cuts you in half, making you look, yes, that's right, shorter.
Be sure your jacket is just long enough to cover your a ... hindquarters.
Wear low-rise pants for a longer leg line.
Wear pinstripes (not too wide, not too narrow) to create a longer visual line.
Always choose a slim tie with a simple pattern.
See the way your way-too-wide tie is hanging below your waist (and your belt) in the photo above? That's not good. Makes you look like you're wearing a tie that's too big for you. It looks like you borrowed it from Obama.
However, standing next to Hillary Rodham Clinton makes you look taller. Too bad she's not running.
Got that? Now, strut your short stuff at the Republican National Convention.
E! Online News is confirming that Gwen Stefani gave birth to a baby today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. US Weekly reports that his name is Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale.
Gwen and Gavin Rossdale's new addition joins their first son, Kingston.
"Mother, baby and family are all happy and healthy," a rep told US.
Zuma, who was born at 12:46 p.m. PST, weighed in at 8.5
pounds
Photographers are now camped outside the hospital.
Stay tuned.
Photo: Kingston, Gavin, Gwen (and Zuma?) take a walk in Los Angeles on April 5, 2008. WireImage
When did Demi Moore's oldest daughter, Rumer Willis, get so hot? The two -- seen at the "House Bunny" premiere Thursday night -- now look like sisters!
Apparently, it's happened gradually. Check out Rumer's evolving look (above, wearing Reem Acra) over the past three years. She's gone from awkward to positively elegant, like a true Hollywood metamorphosis, gosling to swan.
Ellen DeGeneres, 50, and Portia de Rossi, 35, tied the knot on Saturday with a lovely, low-key wedding at their Los Angeles home. See the official wedding photo HERE.
Or maybe you don't think they should have gotten married or should now raise a family together?
I'm picking up from some of the reader comments about their wedding that a few of you have some ... reservations... about gay marriage and gays raising children?
Why does Olympic women's volleyball get so darn many millions of viewers?
Hmmm. Could it be the amazing girl-on-girl action? Click on this gallery to see gold-medal winners Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, pictured right, celebrating their victory on Thursday in Beijing.
We just heard that "7th Heaven" star Beverley Mitchell is getting married to her accountant/fiance Michael Cameron in early October in Italy.
But the real scoop is who's gonna fly over to Italy for the ceremony.
Beverley's BFFs Jessica Biel, Hilary and Hayley Duff will be her bridesmaids, and the wedding guests will include Jessica's "SexyBack" squeeze, Justin Timberlake, TV Guide's red carpet host Joey Fatone, probably Lance Bass and members of the cast of "7th Heaven."
We also hear that several big media outlets are covering the star-studded Italian wedding and there will be amazing gift bags created by Backstage Creations given to all the guests.
I know, I was thinking the same thing ... Beverley who? Confession time: I've never watched "7th Heaven." Am I the only one?
So will being a bridesmaid mean that Jessica Biel will catch the proverbial bouquet and come down with a serious case of wedding fever?
The "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" star and JT have been together quite a while (in Hollywood time), so you never know. Despite what Justin's BFF and business partner Trace Ayala thinks about there not being wedding bells in Justin's future.
"If two famous people are dating each other, what I've found, and I could be wrong, but just in my personal experience, if you're not going to get married, then you're breaking up," he told Oprah on her show in 2007. "It's one or the other."
So which one will it be after the romantic Italian wedding?
Top photo: Jessica Biel and her "7th Heaven" BFF, Beverley Mitchell. Credit: WireImage
Bottom photo: Jessica in "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry." Credit: Universal
The Latin heartthrob just became the father of twin boys via a surrogate, his rep confirms.
His rep tells Access Hollywood, "The children, delivered via gestational surrogacy, are healthy and already under Ricky’s full-time care."
The former Menudo bandmember who rose to fame via ABC's "General Hospital" will reportedly step down from his singing, dancing and bon-bon shaking to be a devoted dad.
“Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children,” the statement read.
Congrats, Ricky. You'll make a great dad.
OK, Is it just me or are there A LOT more twins being born to celebrities these days?
If you'reDonald Trump, it's not hard to get celebrities to show up for your party. And if you're a powerful and wealthy sultan, it's even easier.
An exclusive party to launch the Trump International Hotel & Tower Dubai will be thrown by Donald Trump and His Excellency Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem at a private estate in Bel-Air on Saturday night.
And the stars are definitely coming out for this bash.
The long black limo list includes Hilary Swank, Russell Crowe, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Panettiere, Ali Larter, Brent Bolthouse, Aaron Eckhart (Harvey "Two Face" in "Dark Knight"), Kate Walsh, HBO honcho Colin Callendar, WolfgangPuck, and more. Heidi Klum, Naomi Watts and Demi Moore turned out for the NY version June 23.
So who is this sultan dude? He's the founder-chairman of Dubai World, a holding company that has $80 billion-$100 billion in assets, including one of the world's largest port operators, a massive private equity house, retailer Barneys New York, and Nakheel, developer of the new hotel and Dubai's palm-tree-shaped man-made islands.
He also owns the port operating subsidiary that had control of six U.S. ports until Congress objected to handing the keys to a Middle Eastern company.
Shuttles will ferry nonceleb guests from a UCLA parking lot all night. There will be a live performance by Christina Aguilera, with DJ duties being handled by Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz, and you just know he's gonna play a few of his preggers wife Ashlee Simpson's songs.
I'll be there to check out the celeb scene and report this weekend.
The party is officially designed to spread the word about the 62-story, stainless steel and glass luxury hotel/residence masterpiece -- which will be tallest structure on Palm Jumeirah and is expected to be completed in summer 2011.
But I'm betting they're gonna lay the groundwork for major celeb attendance for the grand opening in Dubai.
Photos: Donald Trump poses with a replica of the new luxury hotel in Dubai at the NY launch party. Orlando Bloom is just one of many stars expected at the bash Saturday night. WireImage
Matt Damon better like the color pink, dolls and playing dress-up.
He welcomed another baby girl today!
Damon and his wife, Lucy, had a baby girl today, and she's named Gia Zavala. "Everyone's doing great," Damon's rep, Jennifer Allen, revealed to People. "She is a healthy baby girl."
The new addition is the third girl in the Damon household, joining big sisters Isabella, 2, and Alexia, 10.
That's a lot of young ladies. Hope the "Bourne Identity" star can handle all four females (including his wife).
Matt, 37, and Luciana Damon, 32, met in Miami Beach in 2003 while he was filming the romantic comedy "Stuck on You," and they got married at City Hall in Manhatttan in 2005.
Wonder how much money will be offered for Gia's baby pix?
Friends and neighbors became concerned when they had not heard or seen the A-list makeup artist for several days.
They called the police, who arrived, forced their way in and found Starr dead, possibly of natural causes. He was 48.
He had worked with classic beauties Sophia Loren and Michelle Pfeiffer as well as current hotties Cameron Diaz, Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Garner, to name just a few. He was a founding beauty editor of Flaunt magazine from 1998 to 2001. His book, "Paul Starr on Beauty: Conversations With Thirty Celebrated Women," was published in 2005.
I first met Paul in 2007, backstage at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Fashion Retrospective, put on by Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley and Laura Ziskin. He was handsome, charming, funny, self-effacing and extremely talented.
Women's Tennis Assn. star Ashley Harkleroad bared it all in Playboy too, although she skipped the Beijing Olympics.
The latest issue of German Playboy features for nude Olympic athletes: canoeist Nicole Reinhardt, hockey player Katharina Scholz, sailor Petra Niemann and judoka Romy Tarangul.
Beijing fencing gold medalist Britta Heidemann posed for the mag too, four years ago.
Do Olympic athletes have to strip for lucrative endorsements? Should they?
Before we get all prissy, it's worth noting that in the original ancient Olympics, athletes competed in their events naked.
Ever wonder how Tom Cruise's wife Katie Holmesreally feels, when she's off-camera, maybe hiding in a closet or getting sloshed in the guest bathroom of her mega-mansion, not having to smile sweetly and recite rehearsed responses to interviewers' questions.
These YouTube videos give new insight into how Katie (OK, not the real Katie) might feel about a few things, like hideous designer plaid pants, making her own decisions and having to name her daughter 'Suri.'
Jessica Simpson will soon be the new face of Dallas Stampede Light Plus.
No, not a new Texas football team. It's a beer.
Hey, at least she knows her fan base.
And I'm sure it didn't hurt her beer contract that she's dating Dallas Cowboys star quarterback Tony Romo. It's almost like getting a two-fer!
But the beer gig is not all suds and glamour. Simpson also has received a reported 15% stake in the brewing company.
"She's the face of the brand now," Lawrence Schwartz, Stampede Brewing Co. president/CEO, said in the Dallas Morning News.
Stampede's intriguing marketing will focus on the brew's vitamin content, cleverly referred to as "functional additives." Wow. What's in there, Viagra?
"As an entrepreneur, I am always looking for ways to diversify my portfolio with good ideas and good people," says Simpson, who has already endorsed zit creams and her hairdresser's hair extensions. "Yes, I work out and take care of myself, but I also like a cold beer once in a while," her statement reads.
Frankly, Jessica has her work cut out for her. I have a sneaky feeling it will take a lot of sweet talkin' to make men order -- and actually drink -- vitamin-enhanced beer. Mmm, nothing like the taste of some serious B-complex, huh guys? Although that 'functional appeal' may appeal to a few.
Would you drink vitamin beer? Even for Jessica Simpson? Pretty please? Pretty please with suds on top?
Even though the British tabs already ran some sneaky blurry pixs of the occasion, here's the official Getty Images wedding portrait of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's nuptials. The wedding took place on Saturday, on the grounds of their house with an intimate gathering of friends and family.
Portia looks absolutely stunning in her Zac Posen halter gown. Ellen looks happy and thrilled in a white suit that totally suits her.
For this incredibly sweet and historic occasion, we raise an imaginary glass of champagne to the happy couple.
Aw, Jeez. I think I'm tearing up... anyone got a Kleenex?
One is top U.S. swimmer Amanda Beard. The other is British supermodel Lily Donaldson, whom he reportedly met on a photo shoot.
On the surface, Michael has more in common with Beard, who held the Olympic record for women's 200 meters breaststroke after winning in Athens. But she didn't make the finals in Beijing. And she's also done some modeling. She went starkers for an PETA anti-fur ad (click here!) and she's also posed nude for Playboy.
But 21-year-old Donaldson is one of the world's top fashion models. She's replaced Kate Moss as one of the faces of Burberry and also models for Gucci and the Gap. For starters, she's absolutely stunning. And to finish it off, she's a supermodel. Then there's that accent ...
Who will win Phelps' gold medal?
I'm predicting the supermodel will win the first heat. Although Beard does have home court advantage.
I guess we'll know the winner if Lily models in the upcoming New York fashion shows in September and Michael Phelps is plopped in the front row, next to Vogue editrix Anna Wintour.
Which one do you think Michael should date? Which one would you date? And why?
To help you decide, keep reading to see runway photos of Lily Donaldson.
No, he didn't get remarried. He jumped out of a plane!
Last weekend, the "Ghostbusters" star did his first sky dive with the U.S. Army's Golden Knights, parachuting onto Chicago's lakefront to kick off the city's annual air and water show.
“I was laughing hysterically while I was falling, but just before it I was tearing up a little bit, thinking, 'Oh, not another stupid mistake.' But it was really fun, a kick," Murray told reporters.
The training was not exactly rigorous. “Mostly I had to sign a lot of waivers saying I wouldn’t sue the government if I died. They pretty much told me to show up and shut up.”
This jump sounds far less dangerous than his last marriage. Murray got a quick but very expensive divorce June 26 from Jennifer Butler Murray, his wife of more than 10 years.
He quickly agreed to give her the residence on South Carolina's Sullivan's Island, their home in Hemet, Calif., and full custody of their four kids. He also agreed to foot child support and coughed up a one-time $7 million, per their prenup.
To paraphrase the Joker, "Why so generous?"
Maybe because his wife's divorce suit alleged physical abuse, abandonment, multiple affairs and addiction to alcohol, marijuana and sex. Now the court records are sealed up, at the couple's request. This was his second marital strike-out: He was divorced from his first wife in 1994. They had two children.
Whew. Dodged a bullet there. Maybe he jumped out of the plane to celebrate. Wouldn't you?
Murray is currently doing a voice role in "The Fantastic Mr. Fox," which also features George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Jason Schwartzman and Anjelica Huston.
Photo: Murray at the premiere of "The Darjeeling Limited" in New York.
"Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis is fighting for our rights!
No, not our right to party. Our constitutional rights.
And today, he filed suit against the Panama City, Fla., legal officials whom he says falsely accused him, violated his civil rights and wrongfully imprisoned him for 11 months.
The suit, filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that a federal judge in Panama City worked in cahoots with the opposing attorney to coerce Francis to pay a ransom before he was let out of solitary confinement.
Francis claims he was falsely imprisoned as part of a civil case that resulted when his company Mantra Films was in the town in 2003 shooting segments for a "GGW" episode involving the spring break antics of college girls.
Speaking today to the Dish Rag, Francis says: "What this judge did was criminal. You cannot, he did, but you cannot put someone in jail in a civil lawsuit and hold them without bail for 11 months. I was denied a trial. No trial, no bail. they just threw me into jail. I had to stay in jail until I paid money to the judge's ex-law partner."
According to Francis, the truth can be found on his website, meetjoefrancis.com. And he wants people to know that he is fighting for their rights as well as his own.
"If they let this action, this settlement stand, one that was executed from jail under duress and was a ransom order, this will single-handedly undermine the entire judicial system in the country," Francis says.
"It will mean that you get in a car wreck, getting a divorce, a judge can tell without a trial, without a jury, no judication or testimony, you pay or go to jail, and then stay put in jail until you pay."
According to Francis' attorney Bob Barnes, this is a landmark case. "This case eats away at the very core of our civil justice system. It's unprecedented. We cannot find a circumstance in the history of the republic where someone was thrown in jail in a civil case so that they could be coerced and held until they wrote a sufficiently large seven-figure check to the judge's former law partner."
So, ask not for whom Joe Francis fights. He fights for us all.
"Joe Francis is fighting for all the average Joes and Jills out there who do not have the resources to fight this, or the access to a law firm," Barnes adds.
What do you think? It should be very interesting to see how this case plays out and what will be uncovered.
Photo: Joe Francis and Khloe Kardashian at Maxim's Biggest Event in Extreme Sports on July 31. WireImage
OMG, how could we! We totally forgot to include Ashlee Simpsonfrom our Rate the Celebrity Schnozz Gallery. She's definitely the winner by a nose.
Ashlee's nose "refinement" surgery is one of the best and most natural we've seen. So natural that maybe that's why we overlooked her rhinoplasty. Plus we love that she's been so open about it in the press.
Of course, it would have been pretty difficult to deny, considering the drastic difference between her then nose (left) and nifty new nose (right).
I'm sorry, but that old guy looks as if he took Paris Hilton's description of him ("wrinkly white-haired guy") to heart.
According to a UCLA dermatologist who treats celebrities, "John McCain now looks like he's had a lot of Botox to paralyze his frown and worry lines on his forehead. I'd also say that he's had some laser treatments to lessen the broken capillaries and diminish age spots."
I'm willing to bet that McCain may not even know he's had Botox. My theory is that his freeze-dried wife, Cindy McCain, has been secretly sedating poor John for years and injecting him with her very own forehead-muscle paralyzing Botox stash. She looks like the kinda gal who might do just that.
What do you think? Has McCain had some 'help" with his appearance? And does it matter?
Photos: John McCain in February 2006 and John McCain in May 2008. Where did those wrinkles go? At top, Hillary Clinton. Credit: WireImage
Roseanne Barr might have been tippling the vino too much when she wrote those vicious Brangelina bashing blog posts this week.
On her blog, she's chastised everyone who wanted to see the $13-million photos of Brad Pittand Angelina Jolie's twins, saying that you are "only supporting aiding and abetting rupert murdoch's rightwing war machine empire."
And she wrote a rambling item attacking Angelina, Brad and and Angie's dad, Jon Voight.
"jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin'). Also miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn't decided who to endorse....huh? Aren't you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party's worldwide economic assault on africa over the last few decades since reagan?"
Naturally, the media quickly got wind of Roseanne's hot air. But rather than go on talk shows to discuss it, she's now blogging that she's all PO-ed over all the media interest in her Brangelina bashing posts. She's furious that they have ignored her other attacks on "howard dean, pumas, Obama, hillary, maureen dowd, bush, cheney, pelosi, congress, religion, capitalism and satan."
Apparently, she only recently turned anti-Angelina when she heard that Angie was, as she says on her blog, for 'insane mccain for potus."
OK, we just gotta ask. Do you think Roseanne is blogging drunk?
We're curious because A: her blog posts sound -- and look -- a bit boozy and reckless, like some angry, crazy old broad still sitting at the bar for last call.
And B: On Aug. 17, the day before she launched her Aug. 18 online tirade against the most charitable stars on the planet, she posted: "bit my cuticle, its infected. Must go to hospital to get it lanced. Must get drunk first."
What do you think? Does that explain it? Or maybe you agree with Roseanne about that "evil spawn" and her "vacuous hubby?" Anyone care for another glass of wine?
Christina Applegate, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, had a double mastectomy three weeks ago.
Speaking on today's ABC's "Good Morning America," the Emmy-nominated "Samantha Who" star said she will undergo reconstructive surgery over the next eight months.
"I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that," she joked on the show. "I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table."
Even though the cancer was in only one breast, she decided to have both removed after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene that is linked to breast and ovarian cancer.
Her mother had also battled the disease twice. "I watched [my mother] have a mastectomy, and then I watched her go through two years of chemotherapy and eight surgeries and a hysterectomy. I've watched this woman survive ... so for me there was always that sense I was going to be OK, no matter what."
She told GMA that the decision was still tough. "Sometimes, you know, I cry and sometimes I scream and I get really angry and I get really like, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that's — it's all part of healing, and anyone who's going through it out there, it's OK to cry. It's OK to fall on the ground and just scream if you want to."
But she also sounded positive and upbeat.
"I've laughed so much in the last three weeks," she said. "I love living, and I really love my life, and I knew that from this moment on it was only going to be good that was going to be coming. Yeah, I'll face challenges, but you can't get any darker than where I've been. So knowing that in my soul gave me the strength to just say, 'I have to get out there and make this a positive.'"
Applegate will next appear on a one-hour TV special, "Stand Up to Cancer," to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5 to raise funds for cancer research. She also co-stars with Rainn Wilson in "The Rocker," opening this weekend.
Donnie Wahlberg and his wife, Kim Fey, are calling it quits. They both filed for divorce Aug. 13, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles and Ventura County.
Fey filed first, according to TMZ. So there. She cites irreconcilable differences and wants sole physical and legal custody of their two sons — Xavier, 15, and Elijah, 7. Wahlberg would get visitation.
Fey, 39, wants spousal support and attorney's fees from the former New Kids on the Block singer, also 39. They've been married since 1999 but separated in January.
A rep for Wahlberg told People, "The couple has been separated for some time now and remain friends."
So why do we care, you're wondering? Because of what Donnie's big D might do to his brother Mark Wahlberg's marriage plans, that's why.
Mark is said to be finally thinking about tying the knot withlongtime girlfriend Rhea Durham, the mother of his two young children, after she pops out baby No. 3 in September.
This could put a real crimp in their nuptials. Wanna bet Markie Mark's feet get really cold again?
Photos: The brothers Wahlberg — Mark, left, James and Donnie — in 2003. WireImage
Paula Abdul was arrested, charged and found guilty of being an accessory to a heinous Crime of Fashion at last night's ALMA awards.
Her enormous, multi-tiered, black-beaded choker combined with matching black-beaded golfball-size drop earrings, topped by an unneccessarily complex banged beehive was classified as blatant "over-accessorizing," usually punishable by a fine of $5,000 or a donation of half a dozen Manolo Blahniks to the charity of your choice.
Paula's sentence? To remove one item of jewelry before every public appearance for the period of one year.
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Fans who attended Jessica Simpson's Ontario concert date -- for the price of $70 a ticket -- did not walk away empty handed. Sure, The Niagara Falls Review tore into the set. But get a load of these new fun facts about Ms. Simpson:
Rivals? Pshaw. 
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